Control Surface Bar
Cheaper control surfaces typically don't feature a display, therefore it's difficult to see what a knob's function is. MultitrackStudio features a Control Surface Bar at the bottom of the screen. It can be made visible using the Studio menu's Layout option.
Control Surface Bar
The Control Surface Bar has eight sections that show the names of the Mixer Sections that are controlled by the corresponding control surface channels. The bar's vertical line can be dragged to align the bar with the control surface. If an effect window is currently visible the names of the effect knobs will be shown, provided the control surface is set up to control effects.
The name of the current View is shown on the righthand side. This typically indicates the function of the control surface's rotary knobs (pan, effect send 1 etc.).
Mapping Mixer Sections
Songs can have more mixer sections than the available number of control surface channels. Most control surfaces have Bank Up/Down and/or Section Up/Down buttons so any number of mixer sections can be accessed. These buttons can be used with MultitrackStudio.In MultitrackStudio, Mixer Sections can be mapped to control surface channels in any order. There are several ways to do this:
- Drag a Mixer Section to the Control Surface Bar
- Drag items within the Control Surface Bar
- Rightclick the Control Surface Bar and use the selector window that pops up.
- Set up control surface knobs to pop up a selector window using the Section Map action.
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